TOLLING OF THE CHURCH BELL

PREPARING OUR HEARTS FOR WORSHIP

CALL TO WORSHIP (responsively):

Leader: How lovely is your dwelling place, O Lord of Hosts!

Congregation: Blessed are those who live in your house, ever singing your praise.

Leader: Blessed are those whose strength is in you, in whose hearts are the highways to Zion.

Congregation: As they go through the dry valley, they make it a place of springs.

All: They go from strength; the God of Gods will be seen in Zion.

Passing the Peace of Christ

VIOLIN SOLO: Matt Schaich

HYMN: #485 “To God Be the Glory”

PRAYER OF CONFESSION: (Unison): The Lord’s Prayer

A TIME OF SILENT CONFESSION

ASSURANCE OF PARDON

GLORY TO THE FATHER

(Gloria Patri, Hymnal #579)

HEARING THE WORD

YOUTH MESSAGE

New Testament Reading: Luke 15 (p. 1035-36)

SERMON: “Lost and Found”

Dr. Marlin Schaich

RESPONDING TO THE WORD

HYMN: #525 “Here I Am, Lord”

PASTORAL PRAYER

THE OFFERING

Offertory: Gavotte Edvard Grieg

Doxology (Hymnal #592)

Prayer of Thanksgiving

HYMN: #281 “Guide Me, O Thou Great Jehovah”

BENEDICTION

CONGREGATIONAL BENEDICTION

(Inside hymnal covers)

POSTLUDE: Fanfare Postlude Martin

Dr. Marlin Schaich was born and raised in Kansas. He earned a PhD in English from the University of Kansas in 2002 and now teaches writing, critical thinking and the humanities at Nebraska Methodist College in Omaha. His wife Sherrie is a registered nurse with the Alegent Health system.

His son, Matt, is a senior at Millard North High School. He has taken violin lessons since he was five years old and piano lessons from the time he was seven. He now plays first violin in the Youth Symphony and as a member of “Cross Walk,” a gospel band, he tours retirement facilities in the Omaha area twice a year.